On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 09:27:01AM +0000, Roger Lynn wrote: > On 19:59, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 06:49:56AM +0000, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: > >> Now, the problem is that lighttpd is including commands or util scripts > >> that require perl and perl is not a dependency of lighttpd. No, I'm not > >> suggesting to make perl a dependency. Please don't do that :). > >> What I would suggest is to write a simple shell script equivalent. I > >> confess I haven't checked the scripts so I don't know how smart would > >> this be. > > > > perl is priority standard, hence should be on your system. > > > > This is not a bug. > > Uninstalling standard packages is allowed. Standard is not essential or > required. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s3.5 says > "Packages are not required to declare any dependencies they have on other > packages which are marked Essential (see below), and should not do so unless > they depend on a particular version of that package." It says nothing about > dependencies on standard being special. Dependencies on standard packages > should > be declared. On my Etch system, perl has about 1900 reverse dependencies, > according to aptitude.
Right, OTOH lenny has a depends on the proper perl module now. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O [EMAIL PROTECTED] OOO http://www.madism.org
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